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Your TOP 5 Oi releases
I am using this to check some out. I never really got into it ,but for the past year or so I've been iching to see what I have been missing. I know
some of you are intot it so help a brother out and stear me into a direction of what to check out. Top 5 favorites or even 10 if you want. Its
appreciated. 
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The Ejected - A Touch Of Class
Newtown Neurotics - Beggars Can Be Choosers
King Size Braces - Land of Broken Dreams
Cock Sparrer - Shock Troops
Bruisers - Up In Flames
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To be honest, I find it hard to listen to most Oi albums from start to finish (and if you ask me what I listen to most, the answer is usually Oi).
Here's a few worth checking out (includes Oi, "street punk", and RAC (since you guys like TMF so much ))...
1) Pressure Point - All three full-lengths are good. First is very oi (Youth on the Street). Second (Cross to Bear) is more punk influenced. Third
one has much more of a hardcore influence.
2) New Glory - Backlash. At least one of the guys went on to Starkweather, from what I hear. Good album, very nationalistic. It's RAC, but the
white power tendencies only come through on a few songs. If you like patriotic/nationalist stuff, this is for you.
3) Hated & Proud - Let Freedom Reign. All of the comments on (2) are true here, but this is before H&P became a white power (WP) band. Good,
catchy, fairly-intelligent (patriotic) lyrics... overall, pretty great album. Some shitty tracks (only one or two), but worth getting.
4) Tommy Gutless - Death, Honor, or Glory Bound. Maybe not oi, but still really good. On Street Anthem Records. Been getting a lot of play
recently, but haven't decided this is a classic yet.
5) Ducky Boys - Dark Days. Came after No Gettin Out, which is a bit too stripped-down for my tastes, but before Mark became a great rock-n-roll
musician (emphasis on the word "musician", since Mark developed some fucking amazing talent). I got a new copy recently and have been playing the
shit out of it.
6) Badlands - anything you can get. It's all good, but not really oi. More like oi/punk-influenced acoustic/rock music. This is an awful
description, but an amazing band. Threw it on again the other day for the first time in a while, and several songs still grabbed me... mostly the
acoustic ones. Think of really early Johnny Cash if he was writing lyrics for a skinhead audience. Good stuff.
7) For those OK with RAC... Skrewdriver "Hail the New Dawn", Brutal Attack "Stronger than Before" & "As the Drum Beats" and damn near anything by
Skullhead (haven't heard "Return to Thunder" yet). Those are probably the best oi-style RAC albums I've heard. Some other decent stuff, but these
are the classics.
8) Cocksparrer - most. No actual ablum stands out, since they all have some really good/great songs and some really shitty songs. "Bloody Minded -
The Best Of" is a good best-of collection (some of the other best-of collections suck, so get the right one).
Some other shit that's really catchy, but that you should probably download first... Perkele, Main Street Saints, Templars (all good, but tends to get
old after a while), and The Business.
Feel free to ask for more later (since I'll be sober then). And feel free to ask for copies if you're kinda sketchy about buying some of this... send
a u2u.
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If you want to check out more bands, buy some compilations. There so many good ones out there, and you can check out all kinds of bands.
100% British Oi from Captain Oi! records is amazing. Two discs filled with all the classic bands.
All three of the Skins & Pins compilations from GMM Records are really good too, and feature newer stuff.
The U.S. of Oi! comps are both good
For individual bands, you can't go wrong with The Business, The Bruisers, Anti-Heros, Blitz, Menace, The 4-Skins, and King Size Braces.
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Songs on comps are usually hit-or-miss. I'll eventually get copies of the Spirit of Oi American Style" albums. As for the US of Oi comps...
Youth Defense League, Moonstopm, Warzone, and Anti Heroes are the highlights on the original...
On volume II, I think Stormwatch has the best song. Other bright spots are Anti Heroes, Wretched Ones, Niblick Henbane, Patriot, Oxblood, and
Headwound. Pist-&-Broke has some good stuff, though it's not very "oi" (more Irish-music influenced).
As for bands, I'll disagree a bit with Discipline (which is another great band). Anti Heroes and Blitz are both hit-or-miss... some songs are
brilliant, others are stupidly embarassing.
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Arresting Officers-Patriotic Voice
Wretched Ones-We Don't Belong To Nobody
Anti-Heros-Don't Tread On Me
Best Defense-Six Gun Justice
Bruisers-Crusin' For A Bruisin'
These are in no order but are the 5 albums I can pick up at any given time and listen to front to back and not need to skip over a track or get bored
halfway through going 'jesus I liked this?!'
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I dunno if I can do a top five or even ten as far as albums, but I'll definitely follow suit with some of the others here who listed some great bands.
I find Oi to be VERY hit or miss, there's a shit-ton of boring and generic bands out there under this banner, so it's good to check out the comps or
get the recommendations from people you can trust. Anyway, I include a lot of bands that aren't straight up Oi just because as a pure genre you kinda
get limited to the old English bands, after that somebody will always argue that it's different for some reason or another. On to the list...
Anti-Heros
Bruisers
Business
Cockney Rejects
Cocksparrer
4Skins
Oi Polloi (but only the early stuff, somehow they managed to turn into a crusty hippy band later on)
The Betrayed (On Oi! Records, not that shitty "hardcore" band that got all the hype recently)
Oppressed (a lot of people don't like them, but if you stay away from the record with the drum machine - Oi Oi Music, you'll be ok)
Wretched Ones
Niblick Henbane
Main Street Saints
Blitz
Angelic Upstarts
Last Resort
Menace
Infa-Riot
Red Alert
Templars
Those Unknown
Hard Skin (best joke band ever)
Bonecrusher (they have an enormous crossover with the Oi crowd and are flat out amazing whatever you wanna label 'em)
Headwound
Pinkerton Thugs
Oxymoron
The Gonads
Iron Cross
Barbed Wire
The Press (great American band that ironically enough don't get enough press)
here's a few great Japanese bands I highly recommend, even if some of them do have ridiculous/homoerotic sounding names:
The Hawks
LRF
Sideburns
For Men
Roughtrade
Blade
Crikey Crew
there's an amazing compilation with all of those bands on it called Burst Out:West Japanese Skinheads. I can listen to that start to finish and never
skip a song, it's fantastic. It's hard to find, but HIGHLY recommended by me. It originally came out on Helen Of Oi Records, but I think it was
reissued on CD by someone else.
I know that was only a couple, but hopefully it'll give you a start...
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DeathByForce
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Wow.. there's so many good bands listed in this thread haha.
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class assassins
los fastidios
stars and stripes
oil!
bruisers
COCK SPARRER
becks pistols
reducers sf
murderer?s row
jewdriver
jesus skins
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btw, read bruce roehr?s column in maximum rock n roll.there are always the best (new) oi! bands featured.
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DeathByForce
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class assassins are so good!
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clevohardcore
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This is great. I am checking some of this out on AMAZON right now. I have the first BUSINESS and a live one. xHonusx turned me on to STARS ADN
STRIPES. I also got the TRIPLE CROWN WORLDWIDE hardcore/oi cover cd. I wna to tcheck out the original shit now. thankr for all your suggestions.
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If you can track down any Steel Toe Solution.. they were funny to listen to.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DeathByForce
If you can track down any Steel Toe Solution.. they were funny to listen to. |
Never listened to them, but they're playing their final two shows in the next few weeks.
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Yeah, I just read about that.
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And if you get really adventurous, you can drive out to Allentown this weekend and see several of the bands that were mentioned (and a few hardcore
bands like NRSV and Step2Far)...
http://www.craigdowntown.com/index.htm
Click on the East Coast Oi Fest link at the top of the page. I have a feeling I posted this before, but can't remember.
Or, here's the flyer, if I somehow figured out how to make it work: 
Tickets are $20/day, or a 3-day pass for $45.
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Holy shit, this is good info. Thank you all for posting this shit. I am going to start checking this shit out.
Oh..and if anyone wants to post any yousendit files or anything...um...I'd be very cool with that.
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Patriot
Stormwatch
Bullyboys
Discipline
Aggraveted Assult
Pinkerton Thugs
too many to list and that is all I can think of rightn now.
MM.
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You guys forgot someone....
Skrewdriver!
(I don't care, I fuckin' love them)
Hit up, All Skrewed Up, and Boots & Braces.
Well, its this place where nobody works, and the pigs don\'t give you any shit. Everyone smokes weed and gets drunk all day. Its a place where
cunts like me and you can truly take it easy and relax. Know what I mean?
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if you guys like discipline you definitely should try Hardsell. they were from the netherlands too and were absolutely great.
myspace.com/hardsellrock
or this new hopefulls from germany
myspace.com/towerblocks
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Am I the only person on earth bored to death with all skrewed up? album is lame.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Jason the Magnificent
Am I the only person on earth bored to death with all skrewed up? album is lame. |
Hey, I recommended Hail the New Dawn! But if someone really wants the stuff
off All Skrewed Up or Boots&Braces/Voice of Britain, just claim it... I've got extra copies (well, more like bought a bootleg discography for cheap a
long time ago, which makes the other CDs unnecessary).
So, up for grabs...
One copy of "1977-83 Complete Studio Recordings", which has all the stuff mentioned above.
One copy of B&B/VoB.
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Here's something to get some of you guys started... bunch of old oi and rac that was on my old hard drive. If there's something you like and can't
figure out who it is (since I doubt the artist name pops up in an mp3 player), feel free to ask... I can probably figure it out (but no promises,
since I haven't played these things in a few years).
http://download.yousendit.com/819BC8FC40B86F70
EDIT: Here's the artists in the order the files should appear-
Youthful Offenders
Ducky Boys
Inspecter 7 (nope, neither oi nor rac)
Battlecry
The Business
Squiggy
Youth Defense League
Brassknuckle Boys
Arresting Officers
Squiggy (again)
Avalon
Skrewdriver (I'm guessing this isn't a cover)
Red, White, and Blue
The Bruisers
Skrewdriver (guessing by the file name)
Batallion 86
Skrewdriver
Final War
Headwound
The Adicts
Moonstomp
New Glory (future members of Starkweather and Everyday Dollars)
Rival
Skrewdriver (The Templars covered this track on some album... Horns of Hattin?)
Razor's Edge
Brass Tacks
Pissed on Arrival (female singer... who would've thunk it)
Wretched Ones
Celtic Warrior (man, they hate the Irish)
Klansmen (rockabilly side project of Skrewdriver)
Hated and Proud
Red, White, and Blue (x2)
Urban Riot (x3)
Bound for Glory
Urban Riot (again... and probably the second or third version of this song in the folder... don't know why everybody loves Romper Stomper so much)
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| Quote: | Originally posted by upyerbum
You guys forgot someone....
Skrewdriver!
(I don't care, I fuckin' love them)
Hit up, All Skrewed Up, and Boots & Braces. |
booooooo.
One of my favorite Oi bands to come out of Philly; Sons of Liberty.
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Here's the one I was looking for to upload... turns out I hid all this stuff inside another folder:
http://download.yousendit.com/464FAB091050314A
Bands:
Soldier 76
Pug Uglies
Disorderly Conduct
Hudson Falcons
Major Accident
Pressure Point
One Way System
Patriot
Disorderly Conduct
Dropkick Murphys (probably a shitty-sounding short clip of a live song)
4 Skins
Cocksparrer
Cockney Rejects (I think)
The Business
4 Skins (x2)
Wretched Ones
Dropkick Murhphys (x2, doubt either is a full song)
No clue who this is... probably some terrible demo I meant to erase a long time ago
The Oppressed
Anti Heroes (covering Skrewdriver)
4 Skins (x3)
River City Rebels (This might be the reason I knew Victory Records was going down the toilet)
Sham 69 (x2, I think... might be live, also)
Anti Nowhere League
Cockney Rejects (x2)
The Strike
Probably Hatebreed (damn this is old)
No idea who this is
Cocksparrer
The Business (I'm guessing... might be a cover of one of the Dropkicks songs from above)
GC5
Cocksparrer
Those Unknown
Condemned 84 (x2)
Pressure Point
Anti Heroes
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Siczine.com
| Quote: | Originally posted by upyerbum
You guys forgot someone....
Skrewdriver!
(I don't care, I fuckin' love them)
Hit up, All Skrewed Up, and Boots & Braces. |
booooooo.
One of my favorite Oi bands to come out of Philly; Sons of Liberty. |
Is the new album any good? SOL is one of those bands that I love when I'm in certain moods, and I think they're terrible at other times. Justice
Denied was a really good track, so I'm guessing the new album is in the same vein.
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